International Partnerships for sustainable

intensification

Prabhu Pingali

Deputy Director,

Agricultural Development

Analysis of productivity gap reveals need for complex solutions

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Arid Semi-Arid Sub-Humid Humid Tropical Highlands

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Yield Gaps by AEZ

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Sorghum

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Cassava

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Complexity of the yield gap

Intensification, reconsidered

Global and local

challenges:

• Growing population and food

demand

• Land pressures and

environmental degradation

• Consumption trends and food

prices

The challenge for us now is how to intensify – releasing marginal lands to non-production - while minimizing environmental and social externalities and costs. Sustainably.

Investments in sustainable intensification underpin the outcomes of sustainable productivity growth.

Our investments along the value chain are working to:

1. Enable more efficient use of scarce resources and inputs; 2. Protect and enhance the natural resource base; 3. Ensure that poor farmers are organized, empowered, and

knowledgeable; and 4. Provide solutions that reduce long-term risks to livelihoods.

Yield increases

Efficient use of scarce resources and inputs

Maintained and enhanced natural resource base – both

for agriculture and the surrounding ecosystems

Empowered and resilient farm families

Stable yields and crop resilience

DISCOVERY

Poverty

Reduction

Goal

Increasing Sustainable Productivity

MARKETS

Value Chain Adaptive

Research Input

production Input

delivery On-farm

production

On-farm

post-harvest

Trading

Processing

Marketing

Consumer

Small

Holder

Farmer

Key Partners

in the System

Private

Sector NGOs

Donors

USAID DfID

Government

WB

CARE PRADAN Agro-dealers MoA/

MoF Ag Extension

Rome-based

FAO WFP IFAD

Private

Sector Intl Food Companies

Basic

research

CGIAR

CIP IFPRI IRRI

Multi-lateral National

Investments in sustainable intensification require collaboration and knowledge-sharing along the value chain

Investments

that efficiently

use scarce

resources

Protect and

enhance NR

base

Organize and

empower

farmers

Reduce

smallholder

farmer risk

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2

3

4

Farmer/Producer

Groups

Traders

Buyers

Cooperatives SHGs VSLAs

Conservation/Environment Orgs

CI SEI IIED TNC

Think Tank/Advocacy

Ag4Impact NtP Oxfam Sustainable

Food Trust

AGRA FOSCA SOILS

1. Enable more efficient use of scarce resources and inputs

Key grants:

• N2 Africa: Putting Nitrogen Fixation

to work for Smallholder Farmers in Africa

• 5 yrs, $19m

• Wageningen University

This project aims to increase legume productivity, nutrition and soil health for small farmers in sub-Saharan by expanding the use of selected legumes with proven impact on biological nitrogen fixation.

• Soil Health Program

• 6 yrs, $165m

• AGRA

This program will build a sustainable foundation for agricultural growth by restoring African soil nutrients through the use of improved soil fertility management practices, training and fertilizer.

23 of 103 grants

25% of investment dollars

$244m out of total $1.14b

Of the total agriculture portfolio, it comprises 15% of all investment dollars

2. Protect and enhance the natural resource base

15 of 103 grants

10% of investment dollars

$103m out of total $1.14b

Of the total agriculture portfolio, it comprises 5% of all investment dollars

Key grants: • Africa Monitoring System

• 3 yrs, $10m

• Conservation International

This project develops a tracking and diagnostic system for decision-makers that will help monitor agricultural productivity, ecosystem health, and human well-being measures in African landscapes with real-time data, and understand the opportunities and trade-offs of increased agricultural production.

• Global Crop Diversity Trust

• 7 yrs, $30m

• United Nations Foundation

This project works to secure the genetic diversity of crops important to farmers in developing countries by ensuring samples at seed banks are viable, upgrading national gene back storage facilities and sharing information about genetic diversity so breeders have access to important traits.

3. Ensure that farmers are organized, empowered, and knowledgeable

25 of 103 grants

20% of investment dollars

$203m out of total $1.14b

Of the total agriculture portfolio, it comprises 10% of all investment dollars

Key grants: • Pathways: Empowering Women in

Agriculture

• 5 yrs, $15m

• CARE

This project support a model that uses women’s Village Savings and Loans’ groups as a means to increase women farmers’ productivity and empowerment in more equitable agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

• Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension

• 4 yrs, $2.8m

• Digital Green Foundation

This grant tests an agricultural extension method involving the production of videos featuring local farmers and their innovative agricultural practices.

4. Provide solutions to long-term risks to smallholder livelihoods

40 of 103 grants

45% of investment dollars

$447.5m out of total $1.14b

Of the total agriculture portfolio, it comprises 22% of all investment dollars

Key grants: • Cassava Brown Streak Disease

Resistance

• International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

• 4 yrs, $3m

This grant supports national research institutions in Tanzania and Uganda to develop new varieties of cassava that are resistant to Brown Streak Disease.

• Protecting Livestock, Saving Human Life

• GALVMed

• 5 yrs, $22m

This project seeks to reduce risk and improve the incomes and nutrition of poor livestock keeps by developing vaccines that address major livestock diseases.

The quality of grant making is as important as the outcomes we solve for

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Partnerships

We won’t succeed on our own. We rely on partners to carry out the work.

• From developed and developing worlds

• From public, private and nonprofit sectors

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Thank You

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